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It is certainly possible that the center of gravity may eventually shift to Portland and Seattle. However, I'm not sure what you mean by "unwillingness to build
by donaldc 17y ago
It is certainly possible that the center of gravity may eventually shift to Portland and Seattle. However, I'm not sure what you mean by "unwillingness to build": Twitter, the main company in the story, is located in a repurposed warehouse/industrial district where you can't walk a block without passing residences and offices built or renovated within the last ten years.
- Empact 17y agoRenovations may well be occurring, but residential housing is scarce, and housing density is low at least in part on account of zoning limitations on building height. San Francisco is unwilling to build up. The high housing costs are a sign that the region's significance has outgrown its supply of housing stock, which will naturally send folks looking elsewhere.
- hugh3 17y agoRight, and why is it full of converted warehouses instead of full of forty-storey skyscrapers? Because the city won't give the owners of the warehouses permission to knock them down and build something that makes economic sense.
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- donaldc 17y agoThere are quite a few 20 to 40 story high-rises in the area, all built in the past 15 years.